Márk E. Hauber

The paper examines muscle fatigue resistance in brood parasitic cowbirds and host warblers, finding cowbirds have greater fatigue resistance in begging displays.

The paper identifies convergent genomic adaptations in brood parasitic birds, including genes related to spermatogenesis and nervous system development, across independent origins of parasitism.

The paper generates genome assemblies for ten brood parasitic bird species and their outgroups, enabling comparative genomic analyses of obligate brood parasitism evolution.

The paper measures yolk steroid hormone concentrations in Japanese Quail eggs during incubation and finds they decline by Day 15, with temperature differences between incubators affecting hormone levels.

The paper investigates convergent evolution in cavity-nesting birds, finding behavioral similarities but limited gene expression convergence across species.

This study investigates how caste, sex, and parasitism influence brain plasticity in the social wasp Polistes dominula, finding sex-specific and caste-related differences in brain region sizes and parasite-induced changes.

The paper compares sensory brain region investment between a paper wasp and its social parasite to understand how sensory systems adapt to different life histories and behavioral needs.